[Kieranwillz98]

Can you all comment at how blank your mind is please I got no sense of who I am at all if I try to speak to myself in my head it sounds quite and like it’s not my thoughts , and other than that mine is literally completely silent like there isn’t no thought at all like it’s completely gone , I don’t get no thoughts , no ideas what to do , no imagination , can’t concentrate on tv because it’s not going in , I speak on repeat because I can’t think of any conversations, and when I speak it’s like I got no choice of what I want to say like no gut feeling or when they speak o seee them speaking and it’s like it doesn’t process in my head it just comes out with a silent mind and I reply to messages like the words comes out but it’s don’t feel no conection to what I’m typing even now it’s like it’s just happening , seems like there’s no way out of this it’s complete torture , I miss having thoughts and being able to relax and watch tv and know we’re to go and what to do , I just feel completely brain dead , can’t work can’t make choices , how can my Brian this blank and how can you recover from it because it doesn’t feel like I’m living at all or have a choice of anything have I damaged my brain in some way ? Is anyone else that blank or do you still have thoughts and no what to do and say and still enjoy and watch tv and take information in , please let me know because I can’t take it anymore I’m so close to ending it all

 

[NoDevils]

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[Zewen]

It's an occasional blank but that's probably me zoning out whenever I just stare at something for no reason.

 

[ThoughtOnFire]

Yeah that's what blank mind is.

 

[coolwhip27]

Yeah that's what blank mind is.

You sure about that? What if it’s just what people commonly mistake as a blank mind? His mind may be blank in the sense that it’s not putting out a certain quality of comprehension but that doesn’t mean it’s actually blank.. how could it be? He’s obviously thinking a lot about his mind being blank

 

[Kieranwillz98]

You sure about that? What if it’s just what people commonly mistake as a blank mind? His mind may be blank in the sense that it’s not putting out a certain quality of comprehension but that doesn’t mean it’s actually blank.. how could it be? He’s obviously thinking a lot about his mind being blank

Nah it is completely blank like a complete silence , it’s like my brain has kicked me out and I’m on auto pilot , but with simple things , eating drinking showering, but Barely it’s like my brain has forgot the process to do if it , it’s just don’t process in my brain , so that’s what makes me think dementia , and things just don’t make sense anymore like going on phone and watching tv , and it’s like words are starting to not make sense , just no inner monologue telling me what to do as a result I have no identity , and feel like a robot and it’s the most uncomfortable de humanising feeling just feel like this really ain’t happening and I’m just in a bad dream , just don’t feel possible to feel like this and be alive , it’s completely silent and no sense of self at all like I’m just a body

 

[ThoughtOnFire]

You sure about that?

I'm sure about my own experience.

 

[coolwhip27]

I'm sure about my own experience.

And I am not

 

[dpdrhaver184]

I had a silent/blank mind (i see them as the same thing) for the first 4-5 months of my DP/DR. No thoughts would go through my mind unless I was actively using my internal voice to 'say' things. I too typed essays with a silent mind, I just did it and then looked at it afterwards like "how did I do that"?
I'm not sure why it went away. I started Magnesium Amino Acid Chelate around that time, but I don't know if there's a link. I stopped drinking and using caffeine too.

 

[ThoughtOnFire]

And I am not

'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy'

 

[coolwhip27]

'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy'

I don’t have a philosophy. Stick to those vague responses though, I just won’t partake anymore

 

[ThoughtOnFire]

My point is that if I told you that I have seen a UFO, you are the type of person not to believe me. You've got to see it yourself. But I think this is a half ass practice. How could you prove to yourself the Earth is round? Where does water go once it's flushed down the toilet? You don't know... you've been told these things. My mind is blank, and I don't need to convince you.

 

[coolwhip27]

My point is that if I told you that I have seen a UFO, you are the type of person not to believe me. You've got to see it yourself. But I think this is a half ass practice. How could you prove to yourself the Earth is round? Where does water go once it's flushed down the toilet? You don't know... you've been told these things. My mind is blank, and I don't need to convince you.

There is also such a thing as logical deduction. If you told me you’ve seen a UFO then I’d only have two options. Either I believe you or not. But if someone asked me where water goes when it’s flushed down the toilet, then I can use what I know to tell you that it went into the ground. So instead of making a black and white decision between believing something and not, I don’t believe anything. If I have two choices, I’ll always reject it. What do you think is healthier, believing something you don’t know or not?

 

[NoDevils]

So is "blank mind" just spaced out not focusing on anything? The only thing that brings thoughts into focus is if you're asked a question?

In the thick of DP I didn't even identify with the words I was saying. They seemed to come out of nowhere.

 

[ThoughtOnFire]

I would not be saying to people I have had a blank mind for nearly 20 years, for no reason.

 

[ThoughtOnFire]

So is "blank mind" just spaced out not focusing on anything? The only thing that brings thoughts into focus is if you're asked a question?

In the thick of DP I didn't even identify with the words I was saying. They seemed to come out of nowhere.

It is the complete lack of an inner monologue stream of thoughts where before dissociation there was always a thought process.

 

[NoDevils]

It is the complete lack of an inner monologue stream of thoughts where before dissociation there was always a thought process.

Sounds good. Women ask me what I'm thinking about and I say "nothing," but they never believe me.

 

[ThoughtOnFire]

It's not a lack of thoughts so much as a disfunction of the mechanism of thinking.

 

[leminaseri]

so much as a disfunction of the mechanism of thinking.

this is what i mean when i say that people misuse the term „blank mind“. if i hear that term the ultimate thing that comes to my mind is „a blank mind. no thoughts. just staring at the wall and there is nothing going on. no desires. no need, just nothing. blank. no dreaming. no daydreaming. no inner voice (this is the most confusing part. so many people on here claimed to have „no inner monologue“ but then they were concerned about „talking to themselves in their head“ all the time.)

so, what i think,

It's not a lack of thoughts

if this is the case, then we cannot consider the term „blank mind“ as valid. it could be called „brain fog“ or „distorted thinking“ or „reduced content of thinking“. but i said this often times in this forum. the term „blank mind“ makes me think about a schizophrenic in the deepest waves of his negative symptoms and he literally doesnt talk anything for weeks, really just stare at the bricks. really doesnt do anything for months. this is that thing that comes to my mind if i think about the term „blank mind“

or that youtube guy who committed suicide. like the founder of that term. he describes utterly different sensations than the dp-community when it comes to having a „blank mind“

 

[coolwhip27]

this is what i mean when i say that people misuse the term „blank mind“. if i hear that term the ultimate thing that comes to my mind is „a blank mind. no thoughts. just staring at the wall and there is nothing going on. no desires. no need, just nothing. blank. no dreaming. no daydreaming. no inner voice (this is the most confusing part. so many people on here claimed to have „no inner monologue“ but then they were concerned about „talking to themselves in their head“ all the time.)

so, what i think,



if this is the case, then we cannot consider the term „blank mind“ as valid. it could be called „brain fog“ or „distorted thinking“ or „reduced content of thinking“. but i said this often times in this forum. the term „blank mind“ makes me think about a schizophrenic in the deepest waves of his negative symptoms and he literally doesnt talk anything for weeks, really just stare at the bricks. really doesnt do anything for months. this is that thing that comes to my mind if i think about the term „blank mind“

or that youtube guy who committed suicide. like the founder of that term. he describes utterly different sensations than the dp-community when it comes to having a „blank mind“

I think people use the term blank mind as a negative connotation to describe their discontent with themselves. No one’s mind is actually blank, it’s such an obviously absurd assertion. It’s not that their mind is actually blank, but they feel like it is. A certain quality of emptiness for sure, but blank mind is not the correct term. I stand by this fact and always will